On Wednesday, it was just past 6:00 in Brussels. However, President Donald Trump’s 25% steel and aluminum tariffs on key US trading partners went into force at midnight in Washington, DC.
The European Union responded in less than ten minutes.
“Tariffs are taxes.” “They hurt businesses, and they hurt consumers even more,” stated Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission.
Like the Trump administration’s initial tariffs in 2018 and 2020, the EU’s first countermeasures will go into force on April 1st on US goods, from peanut butter and bourbon to jeans and motorcycles.
However, more will be added toward the middle of April. a vast array of household appliances and clothes.
